ArticleNutrients2019
Dietary Diversity and Child Development in the Far West of Nepal: A Cohort Study.
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- Effect of Delayed Cord Clamping on Neurodevelopment at 3 Years: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Neonatology · 2021Trial
- Association between the Infant and Child Feeding Index at 8 months and early childhood neurodevelopment.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
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- Food poverty among children aged 6-59 months in Brazil: results from the Brazilian National Survey on Child Nutrition (ENANI-2019).Public health nutrition · 2024Article
- Household- and community-level factors of zero vegetable or fruit consumption among children aged 6-23 months in East Africa.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Contribution of fish to food and nutrition security in Southern Africa: challenges and opportunities in fish production.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Review
- Neurodevelopment and Dietary Intake in Toddlers-A Cross-Sectional Study from the Healthy Children 2021 Project.Nutrients · 2023Article
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- Wealth- and education-related inequalities in minimum dietary diversity among Indonesian infants and young children: a decomposition analysis.Global health action · 2022Article
- Diet and development among children aged 36-59 months in low-income countries.Archives of disease in childhood · 2022Article
- Low dietary diversity is associated with linear growth faltering and subsequent adverse child developmental outcomes in rural Democratic Republic of the Congo (REDUCE program).Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Article
- 'Mens sana in corpore Sano': Home food consumption implications over child cognitive performance in vulnerable contexts.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Poverty adversely affects child development through multiple pathways in low- and middle-income countries. Relationships between diet and child development are poorly understood. In this study, we aimed to explore these associations in a longitudinal cohort of 305 children in rural Nepal (baseline mean age 14 months), evaluating dietary diversity and the consumption of specific food groups at three timepoints over 1.5 years. Child development was assessed using the Ages and Stages questionnaire-version 3 (ASQ-3). Associations between the number of days that children consumed minimum dietary diversity (MDD) (≥4/8 items) and specific food groups over time (range 0-3) and total and subscale ASQ scores at age 23-38 months were estimated using multiple linear and logistic regression, dichotomizing scores at the lowest quartile. After adjusting for confounders, each additional day of consuming MDD was associated with a 35% reduction in the odds of low total ASQ score [OR 0.65, 95% CI (0.46, 0.92)]. The consumption of animal source foods [OR 0.64, (0.46, 0.89)], and vegetables/fruits [OR 0.60, (0.41, 0.90), but not processed foods [OR 0.99, (0.62, 1.59)] was associated with lower odds of low total development. Vegetables, fruits and animal source foods may be important for child development in this setting.
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